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This 3 rd edition ofThe African-American Odysseyincludes not only a CD-ROM-bound into every book (which incorporates over 150 documents in African American history), but also has a broadened international perspective, expanded coverage of interaction among African Americans and other ethnic groups, and new material on African Americans in the western portion of the United States. Free access to Research Navigator is included. This allows readers to access this powerful research tool with one site. Written by leading scholars,The African-American Odysseyis a clear and comprehensive narrative of African-American history, from the Civil War through modern times. The Combined Volume traces African-American history from it African roots through the present. This book places African-American history in the context and at the center of American History.Balancing accounts of the actions of African-American leaders with investigations of the lives of the ordinary men and women in black communities, exciting and readable coverage includes: African-American history from the Civil War and the beginnings of Reconstruction through the Civil Rights movement to discussions of black life at the dawn of the 21 st century.This is a compelling story of survival, struggle, and triumph over adversity. Readers will learn an appreciation of the central place of black people and black culture in this country, and a better understanding of both African-American and American history.

Table of Contents

Becoming African American

1

(131)

Africa

2

(24)

A Huge and Diverse Land

4

(1)

The Birthplace of Humanity

4

(2)

Ancient Civilizations and Old Arguments

6

(4)

Egyptian Civilization

7

(2)

Kush, Meroe, and Axum

9

(1)

West Africa

10

(2)

Ancient Ghana

10

(1)

The Empire of Mali, 1230--1468

11

(1)

Voices Al Bakri Describes Kumbi Saleh and Ghana's Royal Court

12

(5)

The Empire of Songhai, 1464--1591

13

(1)

The West African Forest Region

14

(3)

Kongo and Angola

17

(1)

Voices A Dutch Visitor Describes Benin City

18

(1)

West African Society and Culture

18

(1)

Families and Villages

18

(1)

Profile Nzinga Mbemba of Kongo

19

(7)

Women

20

(1)

Class and Slavery

20

(1)

Religion

21

(1)

Art and Music

21

(1)

Literature: Oral Histories, Poetry, and Tales

22

(1)

Conclusion

23

(1)

Recommended Reading

24

(1)

Additional Bibliography

24

(1)

Retracing the Odyssey

25

(1)

Review, Research, & Interact

25

(1)

Middle Passage

26

(24)

The European Age of Exploration and Colonization

28

(1)

The Slave Trade in Africa

29

(1)

The Origins of the Atlantic Slave Trade

30

(2)

Growth of the Atlantic Slave Trade

32

(2)

The African-American Ordeal from Capture to Destination

34

(3)

The Crossing

36

(1)

The Slavers

36

(1)

A Slave's Story

36

(1)

Profile Olaudah Equiano

37

(3)

A Captain's Story

38

(1)

Provisions for the Middle Passage

39

(1)

Sanitation, Disease, and Death

39

(1)

Voices The Journal of a Dutch Slaver

40

(1)

Profile Ayuba Sulieman Diallo

41

(2)

Resistance and Revolt at Sea

42

(1)

Cruelty

43

(1)

African Women on Slave Ships

43

(1)

Landing and Sale in the West Indies

43

(1)

Seasoning

44

(2)

The End of the Journey: Masters and Slaves in the Americas

46

(1)

The Ending of the Atlantic Slave Trade

47

(3)

Conclusion

48

(1)

Recommended Reading

48

(1)

Additional Bibliography

48

(1)

Retracing the Odyssey

49

(1)

Review, Research, & Interact

49

(1)

Black People in Colonial North America, 1526--1763

50

(28)

The Peoples of North America

53

(3)

American Indians

53

(1)

The Spanish Empire

54

(1)

The British and Jamestown

54

(1)

Africans Arrive in the Chesapeake

55

(1)

Black Servitude in the Chesapeake

56

(2)

Race and the Origins of Black Slavery

56

(1)

The Emergence of Chattel Slavery

57

(1)

Profile Anthony Johnson

58

(1)

Bacon's Rebellion and American Slavery

59

(1)

Plantation Slavery, 1700--1750

59

(3)

Tobacco Colonies

59

(1)

Low-Country Slavery

60

(2)

Voices A Description of an Eighteenth-Century Virginia Plantation

62

(1)

Slave Life in Early America

63

(1)

Miscegenation and Creolization

63

(1)

The Origins of African-American Culture

64

(4)

The Great Awakening

65

(2)

Language, Music, and Folk Literature

67

(1)

The African-American Impact on Colonial Culture

67

(1)

Slavery in the Northern Colonies

68

(1)

Voices A Poem by Jupiter Hammon

68

(1)

Slavery in Spanish Florida and French Louisiana

69

(2)

African Americans in New Spain's Northern Borderlands

71

(1)

Black Women in Colonial America

72

(1)

Black Resistance and Rebellion

72

(6)

Conclusion

74

(1)

Recommended Reading

75

(1)

Additional Bibliography

75

(2)

Retracing the Odyssey

77

(1)

Review, Research, & Interact

77

(1)

Rising Expectations: African Americans and the Struggle for Independence, 1763--1783

78

(24)

The Crisis of the British Empire

81

(2)

Profile Crispus Attucks

83

(1)

The Declaration of Independence and African Americans

84

(2)

The Impact of the Enlightenment

84

(1)

African Americans in the Revolutionary Debate

85

(1)

Black Enlightenment

86

(1)

Voices Boston's Slaves Link Their Freedom to American Liberty

86

(2)

Phillis Wheatley

87

(1)

Benjamin Banneker

87

(1)

Voices Phillis Wheatley on Liberty and Natural Rights

88

(1)

African Americans in the War for Independence

89

(4)

Black Loyalists

89

(2)

Black Patriots

91

(2)

The Revolution and Emancipation

93

(9)

The Revolutionary Impact

94

(2)

The Revolutionary Promise

96

(1)

Conclusion

97

(1)

Recommended Reading

98

(1)

Additional Bibliography

99

(1)

Retracing the Odyssey

100

(1)

Review, Research, & Interact

100

(2)

African Americans in the New Nation, 1783--1820

102

(30)

Forces for Freedom

105

(3)

Northern Emancipation

105

(2)

The Northwest Ordinance of 1787

107

(1)

Profile Elizabeth Freeman

108

(3)

Antislavery Societies in the North and the Upper South

109

(1)

Manumission and Self-Purchase

109

(1)

The Emergence of a Free Black Class in the South

110

(1)

Forces for Slavery

111

(3)

The U.S. Constitution

111

(1)

Cotton

112

(1)

The Louisiana Purchase and African Americans in the Lower Mississippi Valley